My 1st real screw up in 5 yrs or so since I've had the Midmerica lathe. Got this new Rhino Must carbon shaft about a week ago as a spare shaft for another Jacoby cue I picked up a month or so ago. I've been shooting it with their Kielwood shaft till now, and like it, but tried the Must and didn't like the tip as it was so hard, so I went out to the shop to quick change it out. Turns out nothing is quick when you want it to be.
So I was cutting the tip off and decided to stop about .010 before their white ferrule/vault plate, and went to back out the cutter and bang, plastic went flying.
Their white ferrule sticks out about 1/4" from the end of the shaft and for some reason, I briefly turned my head sideways and with the two wheels so close together, I turned the bed wheel to the left instead of the x axis inout wheel.
Thankfully the shaft was fine, but the white ferrule chipped back in one spot all the way to the shaft so I couldn't just face it off to put a tip on. I'm going to contact Rhino to see if they will sell me a new ferrule, but I doubt it, and I'm not about to send it back to them to get fixed, so if they won't sell me one, looks like I'll be getting practice on doing it myself. Not sure what to use, the original was quite soft, but I've seen where some on here have used Tomahawk so will probably try that. Live and learn I guess. Hope I don't do that again.